Maria Deutscher
Latest from Maria Deutscher
This Week in Big Data: MapR Updated, SAP’s Agenda and the Future of Analytics
The past few days featured the usual handful of big data updates, in addition to providing a bit of foresight that reaffirms the optimism that this space is witnessing today. First up is MapR’s update – the Hadoop distributor has Cloudera, Greenplum and others to compete with, and it’s branching out in an attempt to ...
This Week in the Cloud: New Launches and One Stealthy Startup
A few notable updates in the past seven days including dotCloud’s big update to its platform Services – the first item on our list. The PaaS provider expanded its platform with three new environments and a more developer-friendly payment model. dotCloud Sandbox is a free testing tool, Live is a scaling utility that makes it ...
Microsoft’s Dive into Consumer Hardware Doesn’t Concern HP, Dell
Ahead of E3 earlier this month rumors spread like wild fire about Microsoft’s SmartGlass – some claimed that the brand will turn out to be some sort of service that supplements the Xbox, while other sources said it could be a tablet. It turned out that SmartGlass is in fact an application, although this week ...
Putting Big Data to Work: IBM Picks SkyFoundry and StreetLight as SmartCamp Winners
When it comes to real world applications of big data ideals, IBM is one of the companies encouraging big data’s use for things like urban traffic planning and smarter energy use. In a two-day SmartCamp startup competition last wee, IBM chose SkyFoundry and StreetLight Data as the winners. The two teams apply analytics to their respective ...
ScaleXtreme Announces Plans Join the Big Data Club
ScaleXtreme offers cloud automation software that makes it a bit easier for admins to manage certain tasks, such as rolling out patches. This week the company revealed plans to enhance this functionality with analytical capabilities that will ship with a future release of ScaleXtreme’s platform. The next generation solution is scheduled to debut sometime in ...
DDN Scales TokyoTech: Better Storage, Mobile Access
One of DataDirect Networks’ latest clients is the Tokyo Institute of Technology, or TokyoTech, which uses the company’s Web Object Scaler to support the Education Academy of Computational Life Sciences curriculum. Students and faculty in the department have access to the TSUBAME 2.0 supercomputer, but the university wanted a number of extras that its existing ...
Garantia’s New In-Memory NoSQL Service
Garantia Data is an emerging startup that is among the 11 finalists of this week’s GigaOM Structure LaunchPad competition, and it brings a rather interesting new cloud service to the table. Garantia’s product targets Memcached and Redis, two of the most popular open-source memory caching systems out there. They’re used by Facebook, Twitter and many other ...
HP Has a Solution for BYOD Security. It’s All About the Storage
It looks like the small-to-medium businesses segment found its way onto Hewlett-Packard’s to-do list. The company debuted a number of new offerings this week, including mobile solutions, a NAS box and an enhanced storage system, all scaled-down to accommodate SMB needs. The most notable additions are the new BYOD solutions. HP came up with a ...
IBM Looks to Raise Analytics Benchmark with New Platform
IBM’s new Analytical Decision Management software was unveiled this week as an enterprise-ready, decision-oriented big data platform that’s tailored for Big Blue’s core customer base. It falls under the IBM Smarter Analytics umbrella and offers a number of capabilities that the vendor hopes will appeal to companies that want to freshen up parts of their internal and ...
Tracebuzz Tops this Week’s Tablet Business App Roundup
The number one app in this week’s list is Tracebuzz. As the name would suggest it’s a social media tool for the iPad that searches the web for the freshest buzz about a given brand, and then displays in visualized dashboards. iPad Tracebuzz HD Tracebuzz works by asking the user to enter a term, whether ...
